| Listening to music and surfing on the web are two of | | | | with you in the notes field for that contact in |
| the main cool features of the iPhone. Here are a few | | | | Address Book. One sync later, and all that info will be |
| tips you can put to use in getting more out of, and | | | | at your fingertips. Just remember that the notes are |
| personalizing your preferences to have your iPhone | | | | located in the fake contact. A good idea is to name a |
| work for you. Let's get going. | | | | contact in a way that it reminds you the subject |
| 1. Recreate some of the iPod's audio controls | | | | matter of the notes. |
| If you listen to an audio book on an iPod, you | | | | 4. Get a bigger keyboard for Web browsing |
| probably know that, ever since the fourth-generation | | | | Like any other iPhone function requiring data entry, |
| iPod's release, you can alter the playback speed to | | | | tapping Safari's address bar summons an on-screen |
| make it go faster or slower as your preferences | | | | keyboard. However, if you rotate the iPhone |
| dictate. This feature is also available on the iPhone. | | | | horizontally before tapping the address bar, the Safari |
| Just tap Settings and then the iPod option; tap the | | | | window will switch to horizontal mode; then, when |
| Audiobook Speed entry and in the resulting screen, | | | | you then tap the address bar, the onscreen |
| tap to choose among Slower, Normal, or Faster. | | | | keyboard also appears horizontally. More important, it |
| In fact, that's just one iPod feature that also appears | | | | will also be much larger than the standard vertical |
| on the iPhone. You can also use the Settings screen | | | | keyboard, making data entry a little easier. By the |
| to turn on Sound Check (the feature that makes | | | | way, Safari is currently the only iPhone application in |
| volume more consistent from one track to another) | | | | which this horizontal keyboard appears. (Also worth |
| and change the EQ with 22 included equalization | | | | noting: If you summon the keyboard before rotating |
| presets. Basically, what ever you can do with your | | | | your iPhone, then Safari won't rotate.) |
| iPod you can do with your iPhone. | | | | Rotating your iPhone horizontally before summoning |
| 2. Change your iPod icons | | | | the onscreen keyboard produces this horizontal-and |
| By default, the icons on the bottom of the iPod | | | | much easier to use-keyboard. |
| screen are Playlists, Artists, Songs, Videos, and More. | | | | 5. Find out where those links go |
| You can change those first four, just as you would | | | | When in Safari, holding your fingertip down on a link |
| the commands that appear on an iPod's main screen. | | | | instead of tapping it produces an information balloon |
| Simply tap the More icon and, in the More screen, tap | | | | that displays the underlying URL. The same thing |
| the Edit button at the top-left of the screen. A | | | | happens in Mail when you hold a link, which makes |
| Configure screen will wipe up from the bottom and | | | | this tip much more useful. Now when those "account |
| display icons for Albums, Podcasts, Audiobooks, | | | | update" e-mails appear, you can press and hold on |
| Genres, Composers, Compilations, Playlists, Artists, | | | | the link to find out if you're really going to be taken |
| Songs, and Videos. To substitute one of these icons | | | | to the site the e-mail claims. The feature is very |
| for one that appears at the bottom of the screen, | | | | similar to some of the text Link ads on the Internet. |
| just tap and hold on an icon and drag it over the icon | | | | Have you ever had the situation where you hovered |
| you want to replace. Tap Done when you're done. | | | | your pointer over the anchored text link and an |
| 3. Syncing notes with the iPhone | | | | image popped up to show you a snapshot of the |
| One of the major limitations to the iPhone's Notes | | | | site on the other side of that link? Basically that's the |
| app is that you can't sync it with data from any | | | | same thing. |
| application on your Mac. There's a work-around, | | | | So what are you waiting for? Get started now and |
| however-each contact has a notes field. So create a | | | | squeeze every bit out of your iPhone. |
| fake contact and paste any info you'd like to keep | | | | |
